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currentmusicology-4936	Perkins, Leeman L.	Concerning the Ontological Status of the Notated Musical Work in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries	2003	35	.pdf	application/pdf	16640	699	56	Strohm emphasizes the leading role of vocal music over the centuries in developing the expressive possibilities that came to be associated with instrumen­ tal music in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, observing that, although instrumental music, in the shape of musical works, became more 'emancipated' over the generations, this meant only that it caught up with vocal music in this respect (2000:139). In the Prologue to his treatise on counterpoint (in a passage much quoted because of its histori­ cal implications), he asserts that the preceding forty years had seen a re­ markable change in the quality of music composition.	cache/currentmusicology-4936.pdf	txt/currentmusicology-4936.txt